Jesus Christ · Brand New

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-85, 87 and 89, and 2 more places -- 92.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
JESUS CHRIST · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 4 sections: 94 keep time, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-91.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jesus Christ?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Jesus Christ hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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